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A veteran making a poppy wreath

On the anniversary of the week one of WWI's most famous poems was written, David Beaumont reflects on the poem's story and its link to the poppy-wearing tradition that has now been going for a century.

On May 2nd 1915, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer was blown up by a German shell. He was buried the same day. Nothing unusual there. Except that as a result of his demise, a significant part of the worlds' population wear poppies in remembrance and have done for a century. It's an institution. Why?

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